The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1887-07-15
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CANCER CAN BE CURED.
Operations Serving in Every Case to Pre-
long Life indefinitely.

Operations Serving in Every Case to Pro
long Life Indefinitely
The question whether or not cancer
is curable by operation is one of Vita
Importance to those who may have the
disease. Il is popularity supposed tc
be ineurable, but statistics prove thar
it is not so. In estimating the value
of operations for cancer we must con-
slider the duration of the disease when
left to itself. Paget, in 139 cases, gives
the duration of life in seventy-fiye not
operated upon as forty-eight months,
while in the remaining sixty-four.
where one or more operations had been
performed, the life-ayeraoe was fiftv-two
months. Sibley, in eighty-four cases,
makes the average thirty-two months
where excision was practiced. The
longest duration of life in cases moi
operated upon is twelve years; in those
operated upon, eighteen years. While
these statistics go TO prove that opera
ton prolongs life, they do not prove an
ultimate cure. DR.. Oldekop shows in
his report that out OF 229 cases where
operations had been performed twenty
three recovered. DR.. Willard Parker
believed in operations for the disease.
In paper read before the Medical
Journal Association in September, 1873,
ne reports fourteen cases of cure by
excision, the patients being in good
health at the ends of periods varying
from three to twenty-seven years.
A mass of statistics might be brought
TO show that in many instances cancer
has been radically cured, and in other
cases life has been indefinitely pro-
longed by the use of the knife. A few
special cases viii serve to show this.
DIR. Weir reports a case in which the
right breast was amputated by Dr.
James R. Wood in 1856. In 1867 DIR.
Post amputated the left breast. In
1873 DR.. Weir removed a recurrent
growth from the right side, and again
in 1877 and 1880, the patient finally dy-
ing OF the disease twenty-five years
after its first appearance. DIR. Frank
H. Hamilton operated upon patient
who survived the excision twenty
years, and another patient of his whose |
breast was entirely removed, survived
the operation for ten years. Cases of
this description might be multiplied. |
Sr. Shrady; General Grants physician, |
claims that the disease is organic and |
in no way hereditary. He believes |
that its origin is local, and Is therefore |
removable, and that the constitution |
becomes affected only secondarily by |
more or less widespread dissemination |
of original cancer germs. The failure |
of one excision to effect a cure in no /
wise disconcerts him. The disease Is /
insidious, and a careful microscopic ex-
is necessary to follow its va
rious ramifcations. Where the growth
is not in close proximity to the vital or
gans, operation after operation may
be tried with impunity. In the case OF
General Grant, the entire throat was
and an operation meant GER
tain death, otherwise an operation
would have been tried. 1t is an excep-
ton for more than one member of a
family to become the victim of cancer.
In fact it may be confidently said that
no human being can be sure of escap-
ing the disease until he has passed the
age of its occurrence, which is when
his vital machinery is entirely worn
out. In other words ne can never be
considered fortunate in respect to can
GER until he is dead.-M Y Mail aud
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